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The Bills Beat The Browns And Everyone In The Press Box Survived, In One GIF
Today, the weather report for the neighborhood of Cleveland Browns Stadium said, "Rain is only occurring in a few spots." One was, for most the game, the stadium itself, and another might as well have been the press box. If you checked in on Browns and Bills beat writers, you found a lot of deadpan...
Beer of the Week: Double D Blonde
Once we get past the name of Double D Blonde, the wheaty, quick-drinking blonde ale out of Oregon's Hop Valley Brewing Company, you can appreciate it as a hoppy little number that won't offend you, won't overwhelm you. It's lager-golden and keg-ready at 20 IBU and 4.9 percent abv. It has a sharp not...
Sign Of The Apocalypse
For nearly two decades now, Sports Illustrated has stirred the tea leaves to discern a weekly Sign of the Apocalypse. Deadspin salutes the magazine's ongoing effort to head off the end of times, but declines to quietly cede to SI the scoop on the biggest event in world history....
Soccer Ref Gets Trucked At The Point Of Convergence Between Two Sliding Premier Leaguers
This is from today's Premier League game between Fulham FC and Wigan. Fulham won, the ref, Lee Probert, jokingly gave himself and red card, and Metro called it "the most exciting thing to happen in the opening 15 minutes of the match." Flopper....
Brady Hoke Ranks Michigan's Best Rivalries
Every morning, the fine folks at Sports Radio Interviews sift through the a.m. drive-time chatter to bring you the best interviews with coaches, players, and personalities across the sports landscape. Today: Sorry MSU, you're second-class....
Baseball Is Banning Melky Cabrera From Winning The Batting Title Because Baseball Sucks
A little over a month ago, Giants outfielder Melky Cabrera tested positive for testosterone and was suspended for 50 games. Old farts got even more upset about it than they usually do, because, when the suspension hit, Cabrera was just a few points behind Andrew McCutchen for the National League bat...
Chipper Jones Tries To Disguise How Fat He Is By Dressing As A Rookie Being Hazed
That's the conclusion we're drawing from this photo, which was tweeted yesterday by Braves pitcher Pete Moylan. Either that, or Chipper just dresses like that for every Braves road trip. Has to be one or the other....
Four LIU Brooklyn Basketball Players Suspended After Fight On Campus
Four Long Island University (Brooklyn) basketball players were arrested yesterday in connection with a Sept. 14 brawl that involved three other men and two women....
Free Alex Smith's Hat!
Yesterday, Alex Smith revealed that the NFL has threatened him with $15,000 fines if he continues to wear his San Francisco Giants cap during press conferences. It's non-approved gear from a competing league, you see, and that's not cool. Postgame is prime time for marketing NFL products, and the le...
If You Support The Scab Refs Because Of Your Politics, You're Either A Moron, A ProFootballTalk Commenter, Or Both
Drew Magary's Thursday Afternoon NFL Dick Joke Jamboroo runs every Thursday during the NFL season....
The NFL Fired Nine Former Officials When They Refused To Train Replacement Refs
Every morning, the fine folks at Sports Radio Interviews sift through the a.m. drive-time chatter to bring you the best interviews with coaches, players, and personalities across the sports landscape. Today: Jerry Markbreit isn't optimistic that the scabs will get any better....
Bristolmetrics: "Griffining" Got More <i>SportsCenter</i> Coverage Than The NHL Lockout
This is a regular feature breaking down, minute-by-minute, the content that appears on ESPN's 11 p.m. edition of SportsCenter throughout the week....
Thanks To Tarell Brown, We Can All Log In To A Secure NFL Site Today
Last night, San Francisco 49ers cornerback Tarell Brown tweeted out a photo of a letter he had received from the NFL, which alerted him to the fact that he had been fined $5,250 for wearing red sleeves during his game this past Sunday....
The Broncos Will Sit Peyton Manning When They Need To Throw The Ball A Long Way
Broncos backup QB Brock Osweiler was getting loose on the sideline late in their loss to Atlanta. If Denver could make a defensive stand, they would have received a punt deep in their own territory with just seconds remaining. Enough left for a Hail Mary, but Hail Mary time isn't Peyton Manning time...
Who Is The Blurry Guy In This Photo, And Why Did Manny Ramirez Steal His Pants? The Long Baseball Life Of "The Machete"
After Roger Clemens's first start in the Atlantic League, the Associated Press sent across the wires a photo of him in the middle of his lumpy follow-through, pitching to an out-of-focus batter at the plate. The Hall of Famer, of course, had dropped in to pitch for the Sugar Land Skeeters; his oppon...
Rob Gronkowski's Ex-Porn Star Friend Posts Another Photo Of The Happy Pair (And Explains Why He Dropped So Many Passes On Sunday)
Until tonight, we hadn't really heard much from Britney Maclin, neé Bibi Jones, since she emotionally announced her retirement from pornography back in July. Of course, aside from her scantily clad on-screen exploits, she's also best known as an Official Friend of Gronk....
Which Rookie Quarterback Had The Most Poise After His Second Start?
Last week, Andrew Luck of the Indianapolis Colts showed the most poise out of all the rookie quarterbacks who played in Week 1, according to people who wrote about him. Did Luck maintain his grip on the poise title in Week 2? Or did any of the other four rookie quarterbacks—Robert Griffin III, Russe...
Atlanta 27, Denver 21: The Game In Two GIFs
The officiating in this game was an absolute disaster. Just brutal. It was as if Drew's column earlier today sprouted legs and was playing out on our televisions. There was a point where it really looked like things were going to boil over and shit was going to get out of hand. Shit did not get enti...